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Investigation Discovery lifts the veil between the living and the dead with new one-hour crime special RESTLESS SOULS, premiering Monday, April 14 at 9/8c.

The program examines the 2004 murder mystery of Ashley Howley and how a complete stranger, psychic medium Kristy Robinett, helped solve the case and bring closure to Howley’s traumatized family.

Interviews with Robinett, law enforcement, and loved ones illustrate the three-year police investigation, alongside Robinett’s independent search for answers using the victim’s own ghostly clues as her guide.

After calling the police to report a break in at her Columbus, OH, apartment, 20-year-old Ashley Howley went missing. Her car was discovered abandoned in a parking lot nearby, but the case went cold for more than a year.

Then one night not far from Howley’s family home in Michigan, Kristy Robinett was awakened by the ghost of a young woman who called herself Ashley and claimed to have been murdered. For months, Howley’s spirit revisited Robinett to offer more clues about her body’s location. Robinett's three-year journey ended with a shocking discovery with profound implications regarding life after death.

Kristy Robinett is a psychic medium and author who began seeing spirits at the age of three. When she was eight, the spirit of her deceased grandfather helped her escape from a would-be kidnapper, and it was then that Robinett realized the Other Side wasn’t so far away. As an adult, she is often called upon by law enforcement to examine cold cases in a new light and from a different angle.